The African American Struggle

The African American persistence of resistance of being view as second class citizens has long continued since the African slavery as slavery resisted their master by performing poor work, escaping their masters through canals or railroads, inciting a revolt and assisting the Union during the Civil War. African American had fought for freedom since the Revolutionary War in hope of recognitions of their valor and loyalty to the country, but none was acknowledged. African American began to take their stands as multiple citizens were treated unjustly whether in, at times, peaceful protest, in courts, forming organization to help their goals of equality.
The Freedom Ride born from two organization, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Fellowship

of Reconciliation (FOR), in the 1940’s started their initiative of forming movement of non-violent protest movement as it went full throttle in the 1960’s across the United States.* The Freedom Rides, CORE and FOR main goal was to dismantle the legal system made to suppress and subdue African American as second-class citizens by the use of Jim Crow laws. One mentionable court case was of Irene Morgan, she rode a Greyhound bus that would taken her from Virginia to Baltimore had reshaped American history, Irene Morgan was sitting where white people would be sitting. Furthermore, Irene Morgan’s decision on refusing the to give up her seat was also against Virginias statute prohibiting racially mixed seating on public conveyances.*Consequently, Irene Morgan’s arrest fueled her unsettled treatment and sought for justice fighting against Jim Crow laws, Morgan’s interest in defeating Jim Crow laws peaked the interest for organizations that sought for the same goals such as CORE, FOR and the NAACP. After the failed case of Morgan’s, extreme activist with the help of CORE and FOR took their frustration to the streets in peaceful protest as such activity exploded between the 1950’s and the 1960’s.
In August 28, 1963, the March to Washington gathered Two-Hundred and Fifty Thousand people in the nations capital, the African American rose up and took a stand against unequal justice on employment as racial profiling in hiring personnel was a practice during these hard times of civil unrest.* These marchers chose a peaceful demonstration in a large scale movement as tension continued the raged on. The speakers of the gathering was the main center peace in calling on people across the nation to gather as critical figures were schedule to orate their goals for all people, mainly the struggle of equality for African Americans. The March to Washington can also be remembered for the famous speech “I have a Dream” made by Martin Luther King Jr.* The demonstration and resiliency of African American resulted on a major victory after the death of President Kennedy which passed referred as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.*
In comparison, African American had lost lives to achieves such great feat surely through this progress great as some leaders had lost their life for the greater good for the United States to be the reflection of what it stands for, the free and independent. The result of the fight for equality and justice for all citizens was the organization and leadership that had made their progress and struggle possible seen in many events such as the March on Washington and upbringing of CORE, FOR and NAACP.